François Nicolas Augustin Feyen, known as Auguste Feyen-Perrin (12 April 1826,
Bey-sur-Seille
Bey-sur-Seille (, literally ''Bey on Seille'') is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in northeastern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department
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- 14 October 1888,
Paris
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) was a French painter, engraver and illustrator. He added his mother's maiden name to Feyen to help distinguish himself from his older brother,
Jacques-Eugène Feyen
Jacques-Eugène Feyen (1815 in Bey-sur-Seille, Meurthe-et-Moselle – 1908 in Paris) was a French painter.
Career
The elder brother of painter Auguste Feyen-Perrin, Jacques-Eugène enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts and studied under Paul ...
, who was already an established artist when Auguste was only fifteen.
Biography
His father was a tax collector. He had his first art lessons with his older brother, Jacques-Eugène, then attended a drawing school in
Nancy. After some private lessons with
Michel Martin Drolling
Michel Martin Drolling (7 March 1786 – 9 January 1851) was a neoclassic French painter, painter of history and portraitist.
Biography
He was born in Paris. There, he began painting under the supervision of his father, the painter Martin Dr ...
, he qualified to enroll at the
École des Beaux-arts
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in 1848, where he studied with
Léon Cogniet
Léon Cogniet (29 August 1794 – 20 November 1880) was a French history and portrait painter. He is probably best remembered as a teacher, with more than one hundred notable students.
Biography
He was born in Paris. His father was a painter ...
and
Adolphe Yvon
Adolphe Yvon (1817–1893) was a French painter known for his paintings of the Napoleonic Wars. Yvon studied under Paul Delaroche, rose to fame during the Second Empire, then finished his career as a teacher.
Career
Shortly after the end of t ...
.
Specializing in portraits and
genre
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scenes, he had his first exhibition at the
Salon
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* French term for a drawing room, an architectural space in a home
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in 1853. He continued to exhibit there for most of his life, winning medals in 1865, 1867 and 1874. Once, he gave up the chance to compete for the
Prix de Rome
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to accept a commission painting theater curtains for the
Opéra-Comique
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.
Together with his brother and his friend,
Jules Breton
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (1 May 1827 – 5 July 1906) was a 19th-century French naturalist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make Jules ...
, he spent his summers in
Cancale
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Population
Inhabitants of Cancale are called ''Cancalais'' in French.
T ...
; painting scenes from the everyday lives of the Breton peasantry. Many of his works were acquired by public institutions.
He was a close friend of
Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( , , ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and t ...
and worked with him at two organizations Courbet presided over during the
Franco-Prussian War: the Museum Commission and the Federation of Artists, created in 1871 during the
Paris Commune
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. Despite this potentially compromising activity, he maintained his respectability with the Republican establishment and was decorated with the
Légion d'Honneur
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in 1878.
Dossier
@ the Base Leonore.
His tomb in Montmartre Cemetery
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was adorned with a monument by the sculptor, , in 1892.
Selected paintings
File:Alfred Velpeau 02.JPG, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr.Velpeau
at the Charité
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File:Feyen-Perrin-Return.jpg, Awaiting the Fishermen's Return
File:Beaux-Arts Nancy Feyen-Perrin 50108.jpg, Charles the Bold
Charles I (Charles Martin; german: Karl Martin; nl, Karel Maarten; 10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477), nicknamed the Bold (German: ''der Kühne''; Dutch: ''de Stoute''; french: le Téméraire), was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477.
...
Found After the
Battle of Nancy
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René's ...
References
Further reading
* Henry Boucher: "Feyen-Perrin (1826-1888)". Paris 1892. Obituary and text of a speech delivered on the occasion of a monument being erected at Feyen-Perrin's tomb. Boucher was a Senator
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
from Vosges
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.
* Jules Breton (ed.): ''Exposition des œuvres de Feyen-Perrin''. March 1889. Alcan-Lévy, Paris.
External links
ArtNet: More works by Feyen-Perrin.
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1826 births
1888 deaths
Burials at Montmartre Cemetery
19th-century French painters
French male painters
Genre painters
École des Beaux-Arts
French engravers
People from Meurthe-et-Moselle
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
19th-century French male artists